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Should I ship an AI Vehicular Combat game?
Vehicular Combat + Artificial Intelligence
Only 12 developers shipped an AI Vehicular Combat game in the last 2 years, too few for firm odds: the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.; the top game by est. revenue, Mekkablood: Quarry Assault, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 29 more are announced, ×7.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $1.4k against a market of $630. 29 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $148 (exactly $148) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.4k (exactly $1,373) |
| Top 25% | $7.2k (exactly $7,196) |
| Top 5% | $12k (exactly $11,745) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 40 |
| Announced | 29 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
momentum: how a niche's revenue percentiles and developer count moved between two equal, adjacent periods, divided by the market's own move. See method., 12 months: revenue down 60% on the market, supply 50% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 25%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Vehicular Combat
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Artificial Intelligence
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Vehicular Combat
- Price point
- $7.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 73% positive over 156 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. All of the 10 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 29 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×7.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Vehicular Combat with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Looter ShooterFair
- + BuildingPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + CraftingPoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + ManagementPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + Real Time TacticsPoor odds
- + ModernPoor odds
- + MechsPoor odds
Comparable games
VTOL VR 2017 · $18M 
From the Depths 2020 · $8.3M 
SimplePlanes 2015 · $3.8M 
Warbox 2021 · EA · $1.0M 
Wayward Terran Frontier: Zero Falls 2016 · EA · $438k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | VTOL VR | older | $29.99 | 19,885 98% | 597k | $18M (exactly $17,890,534) | Boundless Dynamics, LLC |
| | From the Depths | older | $24.99 | 11,059 89% | 332k | $8.3M (exactly $8,290,932) | Brilliant Skies Ltd. |
| | SimplePlanes | older | $12.99 | 9,811 93% | 294k | $3.8M (exactly $3,823,347) | Jundroo, LLC |
| | Warbox | · EA older | $9.99 | 3,430 55% | 103k | $1.0M (exactly $1,027,971) | Mantaliss |
| | Wayward Terran Frontier: Zero Falls | · EA older | $29.99 | 487 66% | 15k | $438k (exactly $438,154) | Reason Generator Inc. |
 | Wings of Glory | older | $14.99 | 92 80% | 2.8k | $41k (exactly $41,372) | Dire Wolf |
 | Virtual Virtual Reality 2 | older | $19.99 | 40 52% | 1.2k | $24k (exactly $23,988) | Tender Claws |
 | Mekkablood: Quarry Assault | $7.99 | 49 63% | 1.5k | $12k (exactly $11,745) | KRUMB Games | |
 | Big Mutha Truckers | $8.99 | 39 92% | 1.2k | $11k (exactly $10,518) | Eutechnyx | |
 | Typhon: Bot vs Bot | · EA | $19.99 | 12 75% | 360 | $7.2k (exactly $7,196) | Brightshade Games |
 | Enemy Inside | · EA | $12.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $3.9k (exactly $3,897) | Six Ways Games |
 | Assault Commander Rearmed | $11.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) | VTDev Informatikai Kft. | |
 | Front Lines | $1.99 | 23 60% | 690 | $1.4k (exactly $1,373) | Waterfoul Studios | |
 | Autos | $3.99 | 6 0% | 180 | $718 (exactly $718) | Leedo Studio | |
 | BERSERK TANK | $4.50 | 3 66% | 90 | $405 (exactly $405) | WU YU CHENG | |
 | Bulletproof Tank Adventure | $0.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $148 (exactly $148) | HAPPYTECH | |
 | Starship Destroyer | $0.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $119 (exactly $119) | North Star Studios |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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